Writing Qualitative Inquiry
Self, Stories, and Academic Life
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: So You Want to Be a Qualitative Researcher Who Tells Interesting Stories
- The Power of Story
- Narrative Ways of Knowing: Writing and Epistemology
- From My Story to Your Stories and Your Academic Lives
- Notes
Chapter 1: The 5 Rs of Narrative Writing
- How I Came to the Narrative Epistemic
- Real Life Stories: Representation, Evocation, and Framing
- Reflection: Reflexivity in the Storyline
- ’Riting in Scenes: Thick Description
- The Final Two “Rs”: Research and Reading
- Activities and Questions
- Notes
Chapter 2: Fingers on the Keyboard: Developing Narrative Structures
- The Writing Process: Two Rules and Four Steps
- The Set-Up: Narrative Beginnings
- Middles
- The Pay-Off: Endings
- Activities and Questions
- Notes
Chapter 3: Submitting Narrative Work to Academic Journals and Academic Presses
- Old School
- Preamble: Do You Know the Importance of Format?
- First Submission Question: What Is Your Narrative about?
- Second Submission Question: Who Is Your Audience?
- Questions about the Academic Publication Process: Responses by Norman Denzin
- Third Submission Question: How Do You Get an Editor Interested in Your Work?
- Interlude: The Five Commandments of the Academic Publication Process
- Fourth Submission Question: What Is Really Meant by Revise and Resubmit?
- Fifth Submission Question: How Do I Write the Academic Book Proposal?
- Conclusion
- Activities and Questions
- Notes
Chapter 4: Reading and Evaluating Narrative Scholarship: From Appreciation to Contribution
- What I Did on My Summer Vacation
- Narratives as Evidence
- What Do Critical Readers Want? Or, What Makes a Narrative Good?
- Left Tackles and Chemistry: The Importance of (Some) Writing Groups
- Writing as Activism/Action
- Activities and Questions
- Notes
Chapter 5: Success in the Academy
- The Attempted Murder of a Creative Nonfictionist: A Cautionary Tale
- Tenure
- How to Prepare a Tenure and Promotion Portfolio
- Summing Up: What’s Your Story and Who’s Your Audience?
- Activities and Questions
- Notes
Chapter 6: Success beyond the Academy: Becoming a Public Scholar
- Going Public, Then
- Going Public, Now
- Constructing the Academic and Trade/Crossover Author Self
- Audiences and Communities beyond the Academy
- Crafting and Marketing a Web Identity
- Concluding Remarks: The World Needs Our Stories
- Activities and Questions
- Notes
References
Index
About the Author
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